Directors Meet at "Cradle of Industry"
May-June 1997 Issue Number 168 DIRECTORS MEET AT Duryea motor wagon was built Now a walkway, following the 1960s demolition of the building, the site is commemorated with "CRADLE OF INDUSTRY" an interpretive plaque dedicated by Richard and Massachusetts officials in March. The group then repaired to the Pioneer Valley The Society's Spring directors' meeting was held on Saturday, Brew Pub, on whose wall the Duryt>a plaque has been mounted, April 5th in Springfield, Massachusetts. Springfield has a claim to sample the Duryea Porter and culinary smprises. Finally, as the "cradle of the American automobile industry" because was Richard showed a video of his painstaking recreation of a Duryea in this city that J. Frank Duryt>a made his pioneering jomney automobile, almost wholly from scratch. The car itself, which under gasoline power, and where subsequently the Duryea Motor feawred prominently in centenary publicity, is now on display at Wagon Company was organized to undertake series production of the Owls Head Transportation Museum in Maine. Duryea cars. On Sunday morning, a smaller group visited the Yankee In addition to the Board meeting, a precis of which appears Candle Car Museum in historic Deerfield, where Charles Roy was elsewhere in this Journal, the directors and guests visited a pleased to see that his former Citroen SM is well<ared-for. He number of art>a automotive shrines. The weekend began Friday noticed that the car greets museum visitors with the emblems of afternoon with a visit to Springfield's Indian Motocycle Museum, the Voitures Europeennes d'Autrefois, his Montreal club, and the which concentrates on the heritage of the city's well-known two SAH.
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